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Pauper EDH* Combo Mono-Blue

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Instant (22)

• 1x Banishing Knack
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Daze
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Displace
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Dizzy Spell
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Gush
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Negate
• 1x Opt
• 1x Peel from Reality
• 1x Retraction Helix
• 1x Stern Dismissal
• 1x Tolarian Winds
• 1x Unwind
• 1x Whispers of the Muse

Land (33)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Desert of the Mindful
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 24x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Skyline Cascade

Creature (19)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Artificer's Assistant
• 1x Battered Golem
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Dream Fighter
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Gurmag Drowner
• 1x Ingenious Skaab
• 1x Locthwain Gargoyle
• 1x Mirran Spy
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Ornithopter
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Phyrexian Walker
• 1x Scribe of the Mindful
• 1x Scrivener
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Silver Myr
• 1x Trinket Mage

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Counsel of the Soratami
• 1x Divination
• 1x Flux
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Shimmer of Possibility
• 1x Sleep of the Dead
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Commander (1)

Artifact (11)

• 1x Aether Spellbomb
• 1x Bone Saw
• 1x Cathar's Shield
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Fountain of Youth
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Scalding Cauldron
• 1x Spidersilk Net
• 1x Tormod's Crypt
• 1x Welding Jar
• 1x Witching Well

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Deep Freeze
• 1x Kasmina's Transmutation
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Omen of the Sea

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This my take on Diligent Excavator. It is a pretty all in combo deck dedicated to putting the Banishing Knack/ Retraction Helix combo with the ability to make infinite with the Peregrine Drake combo. Shout out to wraya2 as I took the shell of the deck from his Excavate yo' Library.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.03
Based on	Excavate yo' Library wraya2 PDH